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Dubais Grandweld Shipyards recently delivered two new 55 tonne bollard pull escort tugboats to Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi, and a special ceremony was held to mark the occasion.

Bookings for next year’s Seawork (11-13 June) are already coming in thick and fast, with the positive experience of this year’s exhibition and conference motivating exhibitors to book stands in prime locations…

Reports on traffic in the first six months of the year at Aberdeen Harbour have shown a significant increase as activity within the energy sector and the North Sea in particular continues…

Swedish suspension boat seating expert, Ullman Dynamics, has played its own part in safety at the London 2012 Olympics.

Berthold Brinkmann, the receiver of the Sietas shipyard, has successfully sold the Norderwerft to the Lürssen Group following extensive discussion.

It was announced recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change in the UK that Scotland’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters have been designated as Scotland’s first Marine Energy Park.

Tests are taking place at Texas A&M University on a wave power prototype which takes advantage of blades that, like modern aircraft or wind turbines, create lift rather than drag.

The 25th Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg, better known as SMM, takes place at the Hamburg Fair site from 4 to 7 September.

A conference on recent and future material technologies used in the marine and offshore industry is being organised by RINA.

UK based company Marine Software LTD recently delivered the Marine Project Manager Software (MPJ) to P&O Maritime Services.

A man has died after falling overboard from a Scottish ferry 30 miles off Fraserburgh in Scotland.

ContiTech Vibration Control has developed an innovative generator bearing and an enhanced gearbox bearing for modern wind power stations.

Australian boatbuilder Incat Crowther has just delivered a new 34m Catamaran passenger ferry to Rhode Island in the US.

Netherlands based Recaro Maritime is riding high on the success of the launch of the newly designed and tested range of Sun Marine passenger seats at Seawork 2012.

Netherlands based Post Workboats has developed a unique Tornado RIB with water jet propulsion especially for the offshore and wind farm industry and patrol duties.